2 10 24 https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/29f8302e9a6e194bcb6bbcf150043944.jpg cc531e180e61f012f50bfae807624507 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data digital image Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>Illinois College's original building</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Beecher Hall, Illinois College</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>Beecher Hall, the original building of Illinois College, was completed in 1830. It was named for the college's first president, Dr. Edward Beecher, brother of the abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher and the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe. Illinois College had close ties with the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad from its inception. Its classrooms and residential quarters provided safe places to deplore slavery, strategize means for ending slavery, and to assist freedom seekers passing through Jacksonville. opposed to slavery. Beecher and two college trustees helped found the Illinois Antislavery Society in 1837. Many of the early settlers in the surrounding area, however, were pro-slavery. Newspapers of nearby cities wrote scathing attacks on the college and its staff. Nonetheless, the college staff and many of the students they influenced assisted freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad. Some were arrested, and all suffered threats and harassment. Professor Jonathan Baldwin Turner helped guide three fleeing African American women to freedom in Canada. Samuel Willard, a student, was prosecuted and fined for attempting to free an escaping bondsman. Elijah Lovejoy, the editor of the first abolitionist newspaper in Illinois, was a friend of President Beecher and visited campus. After Lovejoy's murder in 1837, students held a protest on campus. One student speaker was William Herndon, later Abraham Lincoln's law partner.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Illinois College</h4> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <h4>http://jacksonvilleil.org/beecher-hall/</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>Jacksonville Area Convention &amp; Visitors Bureau</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>1830</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>none asserted</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg photograph</h4> Language A language of the resource <h4>English</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>image</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #6</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> antislavery Edward Beecher Elijah Lovejoy Illinois Illinois College Jacksonville slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/828aa391601dc0b72504ddbf231f1ad3.jpg b3586749c192dd479c99cadebbf566b8 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Path to Freedom on Illinois’ Underground Railroad Visit the secret places slaves stayed in Illinois while fleeing the South. After the Civil War, slaves heading north toward freedom began trickling into Illinois. Even though Illinois was a free state, it was far from being a safe or welcoming place for slaves. The state’s Black Laws denied African Americans most fundamental freedoms (gathering in groups, voting, bearing arms, etc.), and the Fugitive Slave Act required residents to return runaway slaves to their owners. Slave catchers roamed many areas, hoping to capture slaves and return them to their owners for a reward. This meant slaves had to travel through Illinois discretely, usually under the cover of darkness. They would go from safe house to safe house—a path to freedom that came to be known as the Underground Railroad. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data website Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>An Illinois freedom trail</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Underground Railroad tourism</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>The site focuses on western and southern Illinois sites Quincy, Jacksonville, and Alton, as well as Oakland and Chicago. Note that the site erroneously describes the underground railroad as active after the Civil War. Actually, with the end of the Civil War, and the ratification of the Constitution's Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery in 1865, the Underground Railroad ceased its activities that year.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Illinois Office of Tourism</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>Illinois Office of Tourism</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>2020</h4> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h4>Illinois Department of Commerce &amp; Economic Opportunity</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>Illinois Department of Commerce &amp; Economic Opportunity</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg image</h4> Language A language of the resource <h4>English</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>website</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #10</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> Alton antislavery heritage tourism Illinois Jacksonville Quincy slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/82985a8e10a78a5f74602482233d1e33.jpg edc06c02aeb0c015d414185e22ad29b4 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photo Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>A tombstone in a mixed raced community cemetery</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>African American Cemetery, New Philadelphia, Illinois</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>Photograph by the Illinois State Museum of the McWorter or Old Cemetery, where the remains of African American residents of Philadelphia, Illinois were buried. Philadelphia was a village in southwestern Illinois founded in 1836 by Frank McWorter, a former slave who sold land lots to black, white, and mixed-race settlers, using the proceeds to buy the freedom of sixteen relatives. New Philadelphia, as it became known, is claimed to have been an underground railroad station. It flourished until the late nineteenth century.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Illinois State Museum</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>2005</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>courtesy Illinois State Museum</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg photograph</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>image</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #12</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> antislavery Illinois Military Tract New Philadelphia slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/928f505592fe95afb79282f307f5fc78.jpg f9127a6f9391828b9369704c56b39f6d Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Galesburg Colony at Knox College The Underground Railroad was an informal network of people who helped thousands of African-American slaves escape to freedom. Anti-slavery organizations and Underground Railroad activities were the first integrated social movements in American history. Galesburg and Knox College, located in West Central Illinois, were founded in 1837 by anti-slavery advocates who came to Knox County from upstate New York. The town and College, from their inception, were perceived as most likely the leading down-state center of abolitionism and Underground Railroad activity in Illinois. Though other down-state communities could lay claim to significant anti-slavery and Underground Railroad involvement, what made Galesburg unique was the fact that the overwhelming majority of its citizens, for the first 20 years of its existence, were opposed to the institution of slavery. The anti-slavery influence and Underground Railroad involvement of many Galesburg citizens gradually affected numerous people and communities in a wide circle surrounding the college town. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data text Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>A college's claim to fame</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Galesburg's Knox College's role in the antislavery movement</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>The college's online history emphasizes its founding by opponents of slavery, making Galesburg a regional center of underground railroad activity.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Knox College</h4> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <h4>https://www.knox.edu/about-knox/our-history/knox-and-galesburg-history/underground-railroad</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>Knox College</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>1837</h4> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h4>Underground Railroad Center at Knox College</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>Knox College</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg photograph</h4> Language A language of the resource <h4>English</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>website</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #3</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> antislavery Galesburg Illlinois Knox College slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/7b5509c7ea81e23517346c6c7c9ff61f.jpg 98d8981172b4a8059eb6543479424aff Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data <h5>Painting</h5> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>Old Charley painting</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>African American agents in the Underground Railroad</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg photograph</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>image</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #18</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>An 1856 painting of a man, Charley and a girl, Abigail Peck. Charley allegedly escaped slavery in Lewis County, Missouri in 1842 and was either caught in Quincy, Illinois and returned to bondage, or became a conductor, helping others to freedom on multiple trips between eastern Missouri and Chicagoland. In 2018 the Lombard Historical Society produced research indicating Charley resided with the Sheldon Peck family of Lombard in the 1850s before, possibly, enlisting in the U.S. military during the Civil War. Various oral histories about Charley, though none by him or other African Americans, circulated in Quincy and in McDonough County. One account attributed his assistance to other escaped slaves to his bitterness at learning of his master's sale of his wife while he was a fugitive. </h4> <h4></h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Lombard Historical Society</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>Lombard Historical Society</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>June 17, 2020</h4> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h4>Sandy Schroeder</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>Lombard Historical Society</h4> antislavery Illinois Lombard Sheldon Peck slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/60c1359e172f9e282c2dbd46037f1330.jpg e86246e12dfd0ed6856ccc10c82b7f3c Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper illustration Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>Come ride on the "Liberty Line"</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Misconceptions of the Underground Railroad</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>The advertisement offers free travel to Canada those “who may wish to improve their health and circumstances.” A WIURR conductor, John Cross, of Knoxville, submitted this widely reproduced illustration to the Western Citizen. In 1842 he had been assaulted for harboring two women, Susan Borders and Hannah Morrison, and their three children, who had escaped illegal enslavement in Randolph County, Illinois. Cross was an ordained Congregational minister who came to Illinois from New York in 1839. The “Liberty Line” was not a real railroad, but a network of sympathetic northerners who helped escaped slaves flee to freedom, many to Canada, were slavery had been abolished. The representation of the "Liberty Line" as a train likely contributed to later misconceptions of the antislavery human network as an actual railroad line.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>New York Public Library Digital Gallery</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/21748</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>July 1844</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>None asserted</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg photograph</h4> Language A language of the resource <h4>English</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>image with text</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #13</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> antislavery Illinois Military Tract myths newspaper advertisements slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/6aeca9cda441da282a382b0a21eb6bd3.jpg 7d3dfe25659195036f37829d71d8fdf6 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data <h4>printed color map</h4> Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image <h4>5' x 3'</h4> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h3>WIUGRR Map</h3> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Underground Railroad maps</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>A map of the sites of the Underground Railroad in Western Illinois, documentable based on records surviving as of 2005</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Owen Muelder</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>Underground Railroad Freedom Center at Knox College</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>January 2005</h4> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h4>BGPatterson</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>Owen Muelder, Underground Railroad Freedom Center at Knox College</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg photograph</h4> Language A language of the resource <h4>English</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>map</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR22</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> antislavery Knox College maps slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/6a72d8a937dd366fe1883b459598c614.jpg ceea08e447140515feaf2f7b943670d0 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data jpeg photo Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>Hamilton Memorial School</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Underground Railroad tourism and heritage</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>Site of the Hamilton Primary School of Otterville, originally built in 1835 and rebuilt in 1873. The school was founded by physician and former slave owner Silas Hamilton. It is the alma mater of George Washington, Hamilton's manumitted slave and a likely underground railroad operator. </h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Silas Hamilton</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>Friends of the Hamilton Primary School</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>1835</h4> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h4>Otter Creek Historical Society</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>Hamilton Memorial Association</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg photograph</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>image</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #16</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> Relation A related resource <h4>Eugene Baldwin, "Little school on the prairie: Preserving Otterville history," <em>Alton Telegraph</em>, April 18, 2017</h4> antislavery Hamilton School Illinois Jersey County Otterville slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/1af1593b19e2e9a0130d61c64173e7dc.jpg d837b03eb1d7c971a5eafcd5c5f92f48 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data <h4>jpeg photo</h4> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>An Unmarked McDonough County Station </h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Underground Railroad site</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>This image shows the modern home and farm buildings on the location of a UGRR station near Macomb, Illinois, "operated" by Harmon Allison, who settled there with his wife Beulah around 1854, once his father William built it. Beulah Brown Allison moved to Macomb from Quincy, where her family were UGRR operators. The site of the Harmon homestead remains highly rural, and the orientation of the image is from the southwest, thus suggesting something of the site's possible appearance to fugitives arriving from the direction of Quincy, Illinois.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Tim Roberts</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>1854-1865</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>None asserted</h4> Relation A related resource <h4>John Hallwas, <em>McDonough County Historic Sites,</em> Arcadia Publishing, 2003</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg photograph</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>image</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #15</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> antislavery Harmon Allison Illinois Military Tract Macomb McDonough County slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/572a4906518f3f2c54580ef519a1e7de.jpg 7def5b06a7695b8941fe24c369215f1f Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Western Illinois Men Pardoned for Work on Underground Railroad By SEAN CRAWFORD • DEC 31, 2014 Illinois' Governor has posthumously pardoned three men for their work with the Underground Railroad. The men all lived in west central Illinois and were convicted more than 170 years ago based on laws that prohibited helping runaway slaves. Those laws remained in place even after Illinois abolished slavery in 1824. The Richard Eells House in Quincy CREDIT THE FRIENDS OF DR. RICHARD EELLS HOUSE Dr. Richard Eells was from Quincy. He agreed to help a fugitive slave get to an Underground Railroad site but the slave was caught and Eells arrested. He was convicted and fined, but remained a leader in the abolitionist movement and helped hundreds of other enslaved African Americans escape to freedom. Governor Pat Quinn also pardoned Julius Willard and his son Samuel. They helped a woman reach the Underground Railroad from their Jacksonville home. The Willard's were also convicted and fined. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data text, photo Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>A posthumous pardon</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Official pardon of three conductors</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>Illinois Governor Pat Quinn pardoned Richard Eells of Quincy and Julius and Samuel Willard of Jacksonville, who in 1843 were convicted of aiding fugitive slaves.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>TriStates Public Radio</h4> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <h4>https://www.tspr.org/post/western-illinois-men-pardoned-work-underground-railroad</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>TriStates Public Radio</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>December 31, 2014</h4> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h4>TriStates Public Radio, Illinois Office of the Governor, Friends of Dr. Richard Eells House</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>no rights asserted</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg photograph</h4> Language A language of the resource <h4>English</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>text, image</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #2</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> antislavery Illinois Jacksonville Julius Willard Pat Quinn Quincy Richard Eells Samuel Willard slavery Underground Railroad